There is a free limited basic a count “Basic Account Plus”, if you register with your own business E-Mail. You may change the E-Mail for communications afterwards, but the once given business E-Mail address is your login name.

“Basic Account. Get to know the platform. You only have access to basic statistics”.

There is a free limited basic a count “Basic Account”, if you register with an E-Mail of a free E-Mail provider. You can´t download free ( Excel ) data ?!

Experts told me, that with a free account, you may ask one “question” per day, for free ?!

Some startup company entrepreneurs, who I met personally, recommended personally the commercial reports!

SeriesSeed.fi - “Get your documents in order before your business. SeriesSeed.fi is a set of standardized documents to get your startup over the legal legwork quickly. Includes Termsheet, Shareholders' Agreement and Investment Agreement”.

Canvanizer "Create a new Lean Canvas" - “Lean Canvas is an adaptation of Business Model Canvas by Alexander Osterwalder which Ash Maurya created in the Lean Startup spirit (Fast, Concise and Effective startup)”.

Experts told me, that the total number of produced items is 7500, which were sold in 3.5 years.

Both “Pandora” and “Pyra” are equipped with resistive touchscreens, as the resolution is higher than with capacitive touchscreens, to have maximum touch resolution to be able to hit small buttons . It does not help to have a high-resolution screen, if then the buttons must bigger due to the low interface resolution

“In 2013, YouTube musician Jack Conte was looking for a solution to his problem: millions of people loved his videos, but only hundreds of dollars were hitting his bank account. This didn’t add up, so he drafted up an idea (hey, we’re Patreon) and brought it to his college roommate Sam Yam, now co-founder of Patreon. Now it’s 2018, and Patreon is the solution to this same problem for over 100k creators”.

A crowdfunding campaign is a true marketing campaign - learn about marketing campaigns for small and medium size companies & for startup companies, first.

A crowdfunding compaign has a 30-days starting phase, and a 90-days financing phase. As with other marketing campaigns, you should force your efforts in the first weeks and the last weeks of your campaign. So the project creator should consider to invest at least 10 hours/week during the full project crowdfunding period of 4 months.

Crowdfunding is not for financing “structures”, i.e. current costs of an office rental or of a car, and especially not for financing the costs of living of the creator of a crowdfunding project.

The creator of a crowdfunding project must be a single human ( German: “natürliche Person” ), not a company, not a society, not a group of people. The project creator needs to have a business running, usually ( i.e. in Germany a “Gewerbeanmeldung” ).

80% of the donating crowd should be “friends”, “acquaintances” before start of the crowdfunding campaign ( so at least these people should “know” the project creator ), while the rest, 20%, might be total foreigners.

Donaters want to help to complete a project. So crowdfunding is not suitable to finance already completed projecs ( e.g. a movie which is already shot and edited, or a house which is already built ).

Best practice is to cut a project into pieces and look, which part of the project is the most attractive for crowdfunding.

A recommended length for a pitch video is 150 seconds, while the core message should be told in 90 seconds.

As of 2014 and Germany,

The recommended donation range is 5 - 75 EUR.

A project sum of 3000 EUR - 5000 EUR is realistic.

Its ok and best practice, that the project creator donates ( up to ) 40% of the project sum by himself / herself, as “capital contribution”.

Best times for crowdfunding campaigns:

Best and most successful donation time is Monday noon , i.e. during worktime.

Avoid the “summer slump” and the time between Christmas and January.

So January - May/June and September - December are best campaign times.

In case of “Reward based Crowdfunding”, it is expected that the rewards are granted about 6 months after the end of the financing phase.

As project creator, it is not necessary to present bills to prove the exact costs of every investment. So in opposite to public sponsoring, you don´t need to supply an exact cost assignment ( German: “Zurechnungsnachweis” ).

Cofundos - community innovation & funding - “Cofundos helps to realize open-source software ideas, by providing a platform for their discussion & enrichment and by establishing a process for organizing the contributions and interests of different stakeholders in the idea”.

“Engineers and IT specialists who work as freelancers with long term project contracts, e.g. with a duration of 6 months, and therefore just serve for a little number of clients per year, have little chances to get a special liability insurance, called 'IT Police': The insurance underwriter suspects missing objectivity concerning the appraisal of liability cases, because the freelancer depends too much on the client. This is true even if you fulfil the requirements of the german pension fund Deutsche Rentenversicherung for self-employees, i.e. that you have a little number of minor clients per year and not just 1 client. If a freelancer, like a lawyer, or if a manufacturer, e.g. a manufacturer of standard software has many different clients per year, this dependency is low and so there are insurances offers”.

If you run your own business as capital company ( “GmbH” or “Unternehmergesellschaft” ), there is the danger that you have to pay to the german pension fund Deutsche Rentenversicherung, like an employee. There are no objective rules, but there are discretionary decisions by the pension fund. For example, if you, though one of the owners of the company, sign a work contract with your company, this might be an indicator that you are an employee. But you might be the business manager ( “Geschäftsführer” ) of your own company without obligation to pay to the german pension fund Deutsche Rentenversicherung.

True self-employed consultants have special contract rules: If the customer should't pay in time, the self-employed would withdraw the contract according to (1), and would stop working for the last 4 weeks, immediately, according to (2)

Besides that contracts are usually negociated for 3 months, the self-employed has the right for a 4-week withdrawal notice ( “Kündigungsfrist” ).

If you passed a graduated study and want to work in the industry / field of exprtise of your study, then the privileged legal status of a freelancer ( “Freiberufler” ) is granted to you. This is both true for contracts paid per hour ( “Honorarvertrag” ) and contracts where you have formally to deliver a good ( “Werksvertrag” ) - its the kind of work you do, e.g. software development as computer science graduant: If yo work in the office or laboratory rooms of a company, and have to obey orders by the boss of department, you don´t do industial work ( “Gewerbliche Tätigkeit” ).

Industrial work ( “Gewerbliche Tätigkeit” ) - An important criteria is that the self-employed is not linked into the internal processes of the customer's plant / office / company ( “Der Gewerbetreibende ist nicht in die betrieblichen Abläufe des Kunden eingebunden” ). The work must be sustainable ( “nachhaltig” ), which is the opposite of a single work ( “einmalige Tätigkeit” ).

If people without graduated study just apply for a trade license ( “Gewerbeschein” ) and then do the same work as freelancer with “Freiberufler” status, e.g. software development, they are in a legal gray zone, as the important criteria of beeing not linked into the internal processes of the customer, is not fullfilled .